F-ing Theives

[bloodhound]

you could always have an off duty officer show up at random nights for a week or two and write people tickets.

[hoytem]

not sure if it's legal but i heard of these nice little booby traps called "coyote getters"?

[BallisticsNut]

That sucks. I would put one higher in a tree pointing down towards a lower cam...IR.

 

Like it!

[whacker1]

careful with booby traps as that is just as much against the law, and quite easy to prosecute once someone gets injured.  But they are knee jerk reaction when you have been wronged, I understand that.

 I think you need cameras high in the air getting pictures at the gate, and put out "bait cameras".  "bait cameras" are cameras that have no value, don't work, but appear to be quite nice.  You then get your cameras High up in the tree with infrared flash pointing down at the bait camera.  Your actual cameras need to be pretty well camoflaged, so they aren't shot or vandalized by the person that realized they were on candid camera. 

Security patrol if there is people parking at your gate that would allow entry.  Expensive, but random security patrol from a third party would get the word out in the area that you mean business.  Word spreads fast.

[bowhuntersd]

One thing I forgot to say was that this property is land-locked with private property and home all around it. So its not people driving in its more or less a few locals that live around it. IMO

[whacker1]

It sounds like it is time to catch the neighbors on Camera.  Sorry to hear that you have neighbors that feel entitled to help themselves.

[bloodhound]

go to all the houses around the property and hand out notices saying that due to the fact that you are having a trespassing problem that there is now 24 hour security on the property and any trespassers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. you apologize if they are not the ones doing it but you are going to every ones door. say you know it might have been a place where children played but now under your ownership you would appreciate it if the parents would remind there kids to stay off the property as they will held to the law as well and will be prosecuted "when" caught on the property. then make them sign a copy so you have legal documentation stating that you explained this to them so they know you mean business. then when you catch there kid on your property and the kid says i didnt know you can say too bad your folks signed a document saying your family understood the situation and throw the book at em. if its an adult you catch then they cant say they didnt know or it wasnt posted."because they keep taking taken down".

[wilywin]

Easy....put up a dummy box with a little sign next to it....  " Dear Bad Guys, thanks cause now i got a picture of your face!  Good Luck! "  Signed " Gotcha"  works perfectly!  they wont even touch the dummy box!

[dscubame]

a little camera with a wire sticking out of it saying the pictures are transmitted to a remote computer.  Actually you can do this for real very cheap!

[Special T]

  I also liked the sign i saw while hunting in ID at the Elk Farms driveway "If you can read this sign your within range!"